Donald H Taylor's Discussions

The learning technology landscape has gotten complicated in recent years. Whereas in the past learning and HR leaders simply had to choose which LMS to purchase, now they are faced with endless…Continue

Mapping the Wild West of L&D TechnologiesDani Jonson, Red Thread ResearchThe learning technology landscape has grown complicated in recent years. In the past, learning and HR leaders simply had to choose which LMS to purchase. Now they are faced with endless…See More

Chatbots for learning: Emotion, engagement, and soft-skills trainingNick Eastham, Consultant and Elly Davies, Senior Learning Designer, BrightwaveChatbots for learning: Emotion, engagement, and soft-skills training As messaging supersedes social, chat interfaces and bots are cementing themselves as vital communication channels. Can we harness this power for learning? L&D is at the exploratory stage of this disruptive technology, discovering how chatbots can deliver more natural and…See More

Mapping the Wild West of L&D TechnologiesDani Jonson, Red Thread ResearchThe learning technology landscape has grown complicated in recent years. In the past, learning and HR leaders simply had to choose which LMS to purchase. Now they are faced with endless…See More

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Job role

Chairman

Organisation

Learning Technologies Conference

Geographical location

Europe

About me:

I'm pretty passionate, as you're probably aware, about the need to revamp workplace learning and development in the UK and beyond. Technology supported learning is a crucial part of making this happen.

Donald H Taylor's Blog

Congratulations to LSG member Julie Wedgwood and Cheshire ICT, who won not one but two gold awards at the IITT Awards last night (Feb 5th).

At the IT training industry's annual glitzy knees up at Dorchester Hotel, Julie and the team picked up the Gold Award for the Internal Training Project of the Year and the Training Department of the Year (public sector).

Making the short list is a great achievement. Winning a category is marvellous. Winning two?… Continue

Hi Don, It was great to see and feel such a buzz from the conference and exhibition this year. Whist I know you say that this is down to those that attend, you are the glue that brings everything together. No other event compares!
Congrats on an excellently executed and fun event.

Good morning Donald, just a short note of thanks and well done in organising a superb 2 days. Plenty of food for thought even for a small company such as ours! Apologies for not personally introducing myself during the conference. Onwards and upwards. Ronnie

Hi Don, looking forward to a few days where we can get some quality time to look ahead! Tell me....why don't people want to put their 'photos on their member profiles! I want to add lots of friends, but feels odd when you can't see them!! See you tomorow. Delete Comment

Hi Donald -
I hope to meet you at the conference. I'm trying to encourage people to come along to the talk by Jonny Parkes from the Irish Learning Alliance (ILA) who will be giving a seminar on the ILA ELITE technology project. It is a really exciting industry led project that has had several million € of support from the Irish Government. One of the outputs from the project has been the development of open source tools that enable people to collaborate in ways that also help organisations to guage the value of informal learning.

Hi Katherine, I had a chat with Jane Hart about this, and she thought that it was probably your corporate fire wall restricting some parts of the site because of difficulties with the CSS files. If you could access it at home, it looks like she was right. Mind you, some people couldn't get into the site at all. Apparently it was blocked because it was a dating/relationships site! Perhaps we're missing a possible lucrative sideline....